Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-11-09
THREE ANARCHISTS APPEAL.
s-,os Schwab and Fielder Disayow
Sympathy With the Doctrine
of Dynamite and Beg
for Mercy.
noveruor Oglesby Still Reticent-He
Will Not Talk Lest He Might
Say Something On.
guarded.

communication signed by Spies. Schwat
and Tielden, disavowing aggressive force
and deploring the loss Of life at the Hay
market was given out tonight for publica,
tion. 1t is addressed to Governor Oglespy
and is to be forwarded to him with q for.
NAL petition for clemency. The guarded
wording OF the document is as notable as
TIA matter, particularly as this is the first
sxprssion OF the kind any OF the con.
deuued Anarchists have made. Parsons,
its understood. acquiesces in it's contents
and will address a separate letter OF his
own to the Governor, embodying the same
ideas. Lingg, Engel and Fischer s~teadfastly
refuse, however, to 60 on record with any
such declaration. The following is the
! letter in full:
Governor RICHARD OGLEsBY, Springfield,
u.-SIR: In order that the truth may be
known by you and the public you repre-
sent, we desire to state that we never ad-
seidefense. To accuse us OF having at
tempted to
OVERTHROW LAW AND GOVERNMENT
on May 4, 1886, or at any other time is as
false as it is absurd. Whatever we said or
did was said and done publicly. We have
never ~conspired or plotted to commit an
unlawful act. While we attacked present
social arrangements in writing and speech,
and exposed their iniquities, we have ION.
sciously broken no laws. So far from
having planned the killing OF anybody at
the Haymarket or anywhere else. the very
object of the meeting was to protest against
the commission OF murder. We believe it
TO be our duty as friends of labor and
liberty to oppose any other use OF force
than is necessary in defense of sacred
rights and against unlawful attacks. All
our efforts rave been in the direction of
elevating mankind and to remove as much
as possible the cause of crime in society.
OUR LABOR WAS UNsELFIsH.
No motives OF personal gain or ambition
prompted US. Thousands and thousands
will bear testimony to this. We have
erred at times in our judgment; yes, we
may have loved mankind not wisely, but
too we'll" If in the excitement OF propa-
eating our views we were led into expressions
which caused workingmen to think that
aggressive force was the proper instrument
Of reiorm we regret it. We deplore the
loss OF life at the Haymarket and at Nc
Cormack's at East St. Louis and at the
Chicago stock yards.
Yours respectfully,
MICHAEL ScHwAB,
SAMUEL FIELDEN.
A CLERICAL s-YMPATHIZER.
New YORK, November 5.-The Rev.
Father Huntingdon, q Protestant clergy
man, has written a letter to District As.
sembly 40, Knights of J. abor, OF the Cent
raj Labor Union, in reply to a request to
him to 60 to Springfield and make a per- !
sonal r~etition to Governor Oglesby for a |
reprieve from death for the seven on
demned in Chicago. He says injpart: my |
office as priest units mt to act az your /
representative. although I am a member of
District Assembly 40. and I feel that a
merely PERSONAL visit to the Governor !
would be Of little avail. I desire
a ~repreve from death for the
condemned men. not on the ground
ofany injustice in the sentence but on be-
half ola very large portion Of the com.
munity which obtains but scant opportuhi-
ty to 'ecord it's opinions. but which, while
steadily opposing the doctrines and
methods OF the Anarchists, yet believes |
this verdict has been rendered without
sufficient evidence in the interests OF the
present holders OF wealth and power"
GOVERNOR oGLEsBY STILL RET1CENr.
SPRINGFIELD. ILL.,, November 5.-Interest
in the Anarchist case at the Capital is ap.
preaching fever heat and every OF
Governor Oglesby is watched with the
most intense interest. A small army o!
newspaper correspondents has been be- |
sieging his office and to them he said to-day:
q have resolved to say nothing about the
matter. Ill talked to the press at all, l
might say something unguardedly that l
did not mean as l might be misunderstood
by you enterprising gentlemen. Hence with
fairness to all / must refuse to reply to any
question regarding the Anarchist matter"
The Governors mail to-day was larger than
ithas yet been. 1t was said accumulation
had been received from Colonel Robert G..
~lngersoll in behalf Of the condemned men.
but the truth OF this could not be learned.
Certain it is. however, many eminent men
throughout the country have either signed
Petitions or written the Governor asking
e~emency. On the other hand, it is said on
apparently good authority that the mails
are bringing numerous letters urging q rigid
%sIecution OF the law on grounds
Of public policy. The different kinds OF
letters ard petitions, as soon as read, are
ludexed and filed away in a box. The Gov
ernor to-day had u consultation with At
torney General Hunt, this being the first
Interview with him since the latter's return
iom Washington. The object Of the con-
ference OF course is unknown, as well as it's
result.